FBW | September 11, 2024 You can provide input through an online skatepark survey until September 30. There will also be an on-site meet-up on Tuesday, September 17 at 5 p.m. at the current Castle Point Park skatepark near 8th Street and Sinatra Drive. Hoboken Mayor Bhalla is carrying through [...]
Published in the Hudson County View September 3, 2024 Dear Editor, In the 1980s, as maritime industries abandoned the Hudson River coastline, the State of New Jersey adopted Coastal Zone Management regulations that required a 30-foot public easement at the water’s edge — the Hudson River Waterfront Walkway — running 18 [...]
Infill development combines the old with the new, preserving and renewing Hoboken’s urban village ambiance FBW | August 28, 2024 What developer would consider building on a narrow 25-foot wide lot that is only 100 feet deep, sandwiched between several [...]
Join Honorary Chair Mark Stehli and FBW for this year’s Connect the Waterfront event on Thursday, November 14th, 2024, from 7-9 PM at the Hoboken Elks Club We’re featuring an open bar (beer & wine), live music and fantastic hors d’oeuvres. We’ll present two FBW Riparian Awards, one in memoriam to Aaron [...]
The City’s lease of the Sinatra Park Cafe raises serious questions about the nature of our public parks FBW | August 1, 2024 This past March, the City of Hoboken put out a request for proposals to lease the Sinatra Park Cafe. Since 2015, this structure has been occupied by [...]
Did you vote in the July 1990 referendum that defeated the 3.2 million sq. ft. development - including a 33-story office tower - proposed by the Port Authority of NY/NJ and the City of Hoboken for what is today Pier A Park? We want you! As part of our annual fundraising party on November [...]
More than a century ago, North German Lloyd Lines built a massive stone bulkhead at Hoboken's South Waterfront that still stands today, despite the relentless currents and tides of the Hudson River. Other portions of Hoboken's waterfront have not fared so well. In 2009, a portion of Sinatra Park collapsed, closing off [...]
The Hudson River Fishermen began the day at Castle Point Fishing Pier supplying rods, reels and bait along with angling lessons. The River Trip led by the Hoboken Cove Community Boathouse returned to the cove around 10 a.m. The team from Fund for a Better Waterfront talked to [...]
FBW’s Ron Hine will lead a tour explaining the transformation of Hoboken’s waterfront over the past 34 years -- based on FBW's 1990 Plan for the Hoboken Waterfront -- and provide updates on Union Dry Dock/Maritime Park, the Sinatra Drive Project and the new park under construction at the Weehawken Cove Saturday, July 13, [...]
City of Water Day is a region-wide day of free, family-friendly events on or near the water sponsored by the Waterfront Alliance and NY-NJ Harbor & Estuary Program. Now in its 17th year, this event serves to champion a climate-resilient New York and New Jersey Harbor. In Hoboken, the Fund for a Better Waterfront, [...]
FBW presses for safeguards to ensure that NY Waterway exits at the end of its lease FBW | June 28, 2024 Safeguarding Maritime Park for its ultimate use as public open space The Fund for a Better Waterfront (FBW) has worked with its legal team to put various protections for [...]
This family of Canada Geese were the first visitors to our booth on Discover Your Waterfront day. Nature was competing with the many people flocking to Hoboken's waterfront park on this beautiful spring day. Co-sponsor Resilence Adventures set up shop on the Hoboken Cove beach. Noelle Thurlow spent the morning teaching families [...]
Shipyard Associates agrees to remove deterrents and create 500 foot buffer on Pier 11 Some terns are now nesting at Union Dry Dock and Pier 12; two eggs just hatched on Pier 11 Two Common Tern fledglings at the end of Pier 11 in 2023. FBW | June 13, 2024 [...]
Wednesday, June 26, 2024 at 6:00 p.m. Hoboken Public Library 500 Park Avenue, Hoboken The New York/New Jersey Harbor & Estuary Program (HEP), funded by the Clean Water Act, is seeking public input and engagement for its 2025-2035 Action Agenda. FBW is partnering with HEP to convene this [...]
Our free summer programming begins with #DiscoverYourWaterfront! We’re back on the waterfront with Resilience Adventures and the Hoboken Cove Community Boathouse for a morning of free fun for all ages on the beach at the Hoboken Cove. We’ll start the morning at 9 AM with a service learning beach clean up (we don’t [...]
The proposed sculpture is incompatible with the original design of Pier C Park May 21, 2024 Ms. Jennifer Gonzalez Director of Climate Action + Innovation City of Hoboken Hoboken, New Jersey RE: Sculpture proposed for Pier C fishing pier Dear Ms. Gonzalez: FBW strongly supports the City of Hoboken's public art [...]
The May 10 ceremony at Ramapo College recognized a diverse array of community changemakers FBW | May 13, 2024 Since 1997, the Russell Berrie Foundation has recognized 430 New Jersey residents for making a positive impact in their communities. On May 10, twelve people were honored with the 28th annual Russ [...]
Jane's Walk took place in over 400 communities around the world the weekend of May 3 through May 5, including this tour in Hoboken sponsored by the Hoboken Historical Museum and the Fund for a Better Waterfront Jane's Walk Hoboken began at Little City Books on First & Bloomfield where there was a [...]
The Fund for a Better Waterfront depends on the funds we raise at our one big annual fundraising party - CONNECT THE WATERFRONT - each year. Sponsoring the event is a great way to support our work, promote your company, and show your customers your strong commitment to the community. The [...]
Her book, The Death and Life of Great American Cities, has influenced generations of urban thinkers and city planners Jane's Walk Hoboken will take place on Saturday, May 4 at 11 a.m. Click link to register. Ron Hine | FBW | April 28, 2024 I read Jane Jacobs’ seminal book, The [...]
